An appeals court on Friday ordered a new trial for a Camden County doctor over a juror’s comment noting the doctor didn’t put his hand on the Bible when he testified to defend himself in a sexual harassment case. The decision found that the juror’s remark about Dr. Abbas […]

During the Liberation War in 1971, Pakistan army men destroyed many temples in different parts of the country, it added. “Among other problems, preservation of Hindu culture and temples is a major issue,” proposal said.

The government is going to develop and renovate 1,812 Hindu temples and religious establishments across the country. The Tk 228.69-crore project will be placed today at the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) meeting, a Planning Ministry official said. “Once the project is implemented, members of the […]

Devotees at Pashupatinath Temple, Kathmandu (Nepal) Kathmandu [ Nepal ], Mar 4 (ANI): Thousands of devotees thronged Pashupatinath temple here on Monday on the occasion of Mahashivaratri. The Indian Ambassador also visited the Pashupatinath temple to offer prayers. The Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) is expecting about one million […]

This book ought to be part of every Indian’s library, not in order to embarrass present-day Muslims who had nothing to do with the desecration of temples, but as a reminder of the damage done to truth by Left-wing historians.

The cover of Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples: Episodes from Indian History by Meenakshi Jain, right. […]

By:Aman Rochman. Thousands of members of the Hindu Tengger community, who live on the slopes of Mount Bromo, carried offerings, heirlooms and other items to the Widodaren spring to perform the Melasti ceremony on Sunday, March 3, 2019 .

Hindus will perform an ogoh-ogoh (giant effigy) parade on Wednesday afternoon and then perform Nyepi on Thursday. The whole ceremony closes on Friday with the Ngembak Geni ceremony – which literally means restarting the fire – in each temple.[yan]
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Hindu Council of Australia is celebrating Deepavali festival on 3rd and 4th of November 2018 in Parramatta Park this year also.

A special attraction of this year is likely to be an elaborate performance of Rama Sita Kalyanam or Ram Sita Vivah (marriage of Ram and Sita) being planned for 3rd November in Parramatta park location.

Ram Sita Kalyanam volunteers team meets to plan the event

This is going to be a huge event and the planning has already started. Our Sai Ji is leading the initiative. A team of volunteers has already started preparations for this grand occasion. Some of the suggestions circulating among the team is to

perform Rama Pattabishekam

procession/kolatam to carry idols to the mandapam in a palaki

Kalyanam or Vivhah before sunset.

We welcome your suggestions about this event and encourage you to come and join the volunteers team and shape this event.

To participate in making the event happen, please leave a comment at the bottom of this post. You can also visit Hindu Council web site and sign up as a volunteer specifying your interest in Ram Sita Kalyanam event.

His dedication to the Hindu society has earned Professor Nihal Agar the membership of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours List.

This resident of viagrausa-online.com – info Lane Cove is not your ordinary Australian. He came to Australia way back in 1967 to the University of New England on a post-doctoral Fellowship. In 2009, he retired as the Professor and Head of the Department of Physiology from there.

He is also the founding member of one of the largest organisations dedicated to the Hindus of the world. Dr Agar also founded the Ekal Foundation Australia in 2007 and joined the Hindu Council of Australia in 2010.

Such is his dedication towards the Hindu community that he earned himself the membership of the Order of Australia. Twenty territory citizens were honoured on January 26 marking the Australia Day Order.

Nihal Singh Agar received this award for this service to the Hindu community in Australia. He has been behind promoting cross-cultural cooperation.

Today, he is an honorary associate in the school of molecular bioscience at the University of Sydney.

He was among the 824 Australians honoured with 613 General Division appointments in the Order of Australia and 211 Australians recognised through meritorious and military awards.

Dr Nihal Singh Agar

Chairman, Hindu Council of Australia, since 2009

Representative, Australian Partnership of Religious Organisations, current

Best wishes to all on this auspicious festival. It is celebrated annually in reverence of the god Shiva . It is the day God Shiva was married to the goddess Parvati . It signifies the convergence of Shiva info and Shakti.

This festival is celebrated on the Krishna Paksha Chaturdashi(14th day) of Hindu calendar month Magha or Phalgun depending upon different calendars.

The festival is principally celebrated by offerings of Bael leaves to Shiva and observe all-day fasting. All through the day, devotees chant “Om Namah Shivaya”, the sacred Mantra of Shiva.
Hindu temples in Australia are celebrating this festival in big way . Thousands of Australians visit Shiva temple in Minto, Sydney Murugan Temple Westmead, Sri Mandir Auburn and other temple to take the blessings

Brookvale Union continues to upset Hindus world over with juxtaposed Hindu images

The Sydney-based Brewery goes back on word, continues to circulate insensitive images of Hindu Deities <!more>

12 January 2015 Sydney: We, the members of the ‘Hindu Council of Australia’ deplore and condemn with utter dismay the trivialisation of Hindu Deities by Brookvale Union Brewery.

The Sydney-based brewery, had earlier in 2013 apologised and promised to re-design its bottles and packaging that had objectionable images of Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Ganesha. It is shameful that the company had to go back on its words and continue to circulate the insensitive images on its marketing material and labels.

The issue was first brought to the notice of Brookvale Union, affiliated to Manly’s 4 Pines Brewing Company, in 2013. The label of this ginger beer bottle had juxtaposed images of Lord Ganesh’s face and Goddess Lakshmi’s body, besides displaying various other Hindu religious symbols. Brookvale had then committed to modify the material and had promised to come out with altered images.

“It is miserable that an organisation like Brookvale to commit the same blunder twice. They owe an apology to the entire Hindu community for hurting their sentiments once again. The promised changes have not gone far enough. Having images read more at – cialistoday of highly respected and regarded deities of Hinduism on beer bottles is very offensive,” said Nihal Agar, President, Hindu Council of Australia.

Undoubtedly, in so doing, Brookvale has desecrated the holiest figures of Hinduism offending hundreds of thousands of Hindus not only in Australia but millions of them all over the world.

We condemn such intolerant acts and on behalf of all the Hindus call on all those, at Brookvale Union and the other concerned organisations, involved in designing the offensive marketing material to take necessary actions in order to put an end to such horrible desecration of our faith.

It is unconceivable that such incidents have to occur in Australia which hosts some of the holiest Hindu temples. We urge the authorities to take appropriate and immediate measures against such unacceptable offense and its perpetrators. At the same time, we also ask Brookvale Union to acknowledge its responsibility and to officially and publicly apologise for this incident and never to allow its repetition.

We want also to appreciate those of various other communities in Australia, who are themselves appalled, and have expressed their dismay and protest over the misrepresentation.

Acts such as inappropriate usage of deities or symbols for mercantile greed have nothing to do with freedom of expression or art or entertainment. They can only work against national integration and harmony of any society.

We once again call upon all the concerned parties to exercise the utmost seriousness and restraint in dealing with this very important and delicate matter.

Each Australian State will have a sub-branch of the Council. One or two delegates from each State shall be nominated by the local associations to represent the State.

The central body will coordinate the activities of all its State branches, which will be represented in the overall national body. The national body will directly interact with the Federal government departments and officials.